Ptolus 13th Age Conversion: Difference between revisions

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Some thoughts on converting Ptlous to 13th Age.

Icons

There is this post: https://plus.google.com/110732433696159436591/posts/gL8cSi4W1aq

It gets some things wrong. Some of the icons are too small time. Not enough of the icons are in opposition to each other. Only 11 of them. Looking at posts of the playtest that came out of that link, all of the characters had nothing but positive relations with the icons, which is fairly off for _13th Age_ as written. I do like the idea of the icons being organisations in the city, rather than people. That works a lot better for the tone of _Ptolus_.

A rough guess at how I'd do it:

Church of Lothian
Commissar
The Fallen
Inverted Pyramid
The Iron Guild
Pactlords of the Quaan
Delver’s Guild
The Shuul
Vox Populi

Noble Families? (tough, because they are not unified. Maybe work that into the mechanics somehow).
Crime Syndycates? (same)
The Guilds (Ironworkers, Masons, etc.)
Chaos Cults? (generally obliterated by The Six) "Forces of Chaos"?
Iron Mage?
Keepers of the Veil, Knights of the Golden Cross, Knights of the Pale, The Malkuth : "Forces of Light"?

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 There is this post: https://plus.google.com/110732433696159436591/posts/gL8cSi4W1aq
-It gets some things wrong. Some of the icons are too small time. Not enough of the icons are in opposition to each other. Looking at posts of the playtest that came out of that link, ''all'' of the characters had nothing but positive relations with the icons, which is fairly off for _13th Age_ as written.
+It gets some things wrong. Some of the icons are too small time. Not enough of the icons are in opposition to each other. Only 11 of them. Looking at posts of the playtest that came out of that link, ''all'' of the characters had nothing but positive relations with the icons, which is fairly off for _13th Age_ as written. I do like the idea of the icons being organisations in the city, rather than people. That works a lot better for the tone of _Ptolus_.
+A rough guess at how I'd do it:
+* Church of Lothian
+* Commissar
+* The Fallen
+* Inverted Pyramid
+* The Iron Guild
+* Pactlords of the Quaan
+* Delver’s Guild
+* The Shuul
+* Vox Populi
+* Noble Families? (tough, because they are not unified. Maybe work that into the mechanics somehow).
+* Crime Syndycates? (same)
+* The Guilds (Ironworkers, Masons, etc.)
+* Chaos Cults? (generally obliterated by The Six) "Forces of Chaos"?
+* Iron Mage?
+* Keepers of the Veil, Knights of the Golden Cross, Knights of the Pale, The Malkuth : "Forces of Light"?